Should Gov't Mandate Health Insurance? - Tom Daschle and Tommy Thompson

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/17/Tom_Daschle__Tommy_Thompson_The_Future_of_Health_Care

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson debates former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on the idea of a universal mandate for health insurance. While Thompson disagrees with the notion, Daschle argues that uninsured individuals drive up costs for insured Americans, and compares mandatory healthcare plans to car insurance.

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The National Constitution Center's Sixth Annual John M. Templeton, Jr., Lecture on Economic Liberties and the Constitution will consider the issue of health care, which has commanded national attention and become a focal point of debate during the 2008 presidential election process.

Delivering this year's lecture, titled "Health Care, Choice or Mandate?" will be Secretary Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, with a response from Senator Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota - National Constitution Center

Tommy Thompson is a Senior Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, a Washington, D.C., law firm, and is former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to these positions, Secretary Thompson served as the Governor of Wisconsin.

Thomas Andrew Daschle is a former U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated on November 2, 2004, by the Republican candidate, John Thune, in his bid for re-election. He is currently a Special Policy Advisor at the law firm Alston & Bird LLP, visiting professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

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[luv2watch2too]

tax cheat thinks people need to be forced to be personally responsible.

[sergeantx37]

If you can't choose to refuse their services, it's not a free choice. A lot of people in this country are finding innovative ways to finance health care that don't funnel money through insurance companies. The insurance industry has been tracking this movement and this provision is a crass attempt by their lobbyists to shut down healthy grass roots solutions and herd us all into their pens through force of law.

[funkyflights]

We need a NON PROFIT system as a middle man in the USA.... Let's get ride of private health insurance companies.... That's the best solution.... GREED is killing our system

[funkyflights]

This guy is talking about cost shifting but he needs to realize so many Americans simply cannot afford the outrages premiums health insurance companies are charging.... I have a fried who was paying 1,000 a month for her family of 3... Her premiums just went up 60 percent and it blind sided her outta know where.... NOW her premiums are 1,600 a month.... Well her family is now uninsured... she simply got priced out of the market... Greed is a biatch aint it....

[mavinga]

Daschle, the only states in which both moral rights and individual personal responsibility exist are in theocratic states, unless you want to implement a socialist materialist atheistic theocracy in America. You can have something be both a moral rights and mandate it as part of personal responsibility in a secular society. Government is not in the business of legislating moral rights.

[mavinga]

@NuRm69 wow, I was going to write the same exact thing, word for word...that was crazy, I can't believe he just said that so smoothly, thats scary, almost makes me think that Daschle is a Marxist Socialist materialist.. Because the scary part isnt only that he thinks health care should be mandated, its that he thinks from the perspective of the coercive power, our health (essentially our life) should be viewed from the perspective of policy in the same manner as our car or our home..

[NuRm69]

How the hell can Daschle compare house insurace and car insurance to health insurace? You don't have to own a car when you can call a cab or use public transportation. You don't have to own a house when you can rent an apartment. You are BORN with your health, and mandating everyone to pay for their own health when it isn't even close to being affordable is a complete disaster to an already strenuous economy.

[josephdupont]

why not pass a law which forces everyone to be rich!! If your not rich you get taxed.. After all if your not rich and don't pay a alot of taxes you are costing society!! Right??

[josephdupont]

Tom Daschle to rat.you and your wife should be in jail for the crap you have done. You don't have to have insurance on your house!!! Dummy. It makes sense to. but you don't have to.. you lied!!

[josephdupont]

this is criminal. to force one to have health insurance when you can't afford it.

what about illegal aliens.. are they forced?

[sergeantx37]

Whatever. The issue under discussion here is the mandate. It's wrong.

[johnnorvaisas]

But these socialist nuts like Daschle want to take millions of jobs away from people for 15 million illegals to get free health care and for 10 million people that don't even want health care.

This system needs to be fixed but we can't have a radical public plan it will bankrupt America mark my words.